The new record didn’t do very well and they are playing to half filled arenas

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This group had one of the best debut albums of all time.

They have tons of hits.

They are probably permanent A list.

One of the members has had some drug issues which led to a couple year break.

Now?

The new record didn’t do very well and they are playing to half filled arenas that are only half filled because they have discounted tickets in every city.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Green Day

Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong talks drug issues: ‘I was at my pill-taking height’ – 2013

In a new interview in Rolling Stone this week, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong opens up about his addiction to alcohol and prescription medication—and the series of incidents that put him in rehab seven months ago.

If you recall, Armstrong ran into some undisclosed health issues while playing shows in Europe, and a week later had an angry meltdown on stage during the iHeartRadio Festival in Las Vegas. According to Armstrong, all those incidents snowballed into what ended up being his break point. “We were playing some shows in Europe. I was at my pill-taking height at that time, medicating the s— out of myself because I couldn’t sleep,” Armstrong said. “One night, I called a friend of mine who was in the hotel room next door. I said, ‘Come over, have some coffee.’ It’s 7 a.m. I’m like, ‘I just took all of this stuff, I can’t sleep.’ It was all normal talk, like how we’re talking now. Afterward, I’m sitting in my room, and I get a text from my manager: ‘Come on down, we have to talk about the Reading Festival.’ I went down there, he was sitting there, and he goes, ‘We’re getting on a plane. We’re canceling the rest of this tour, and you’re going into rehab.’ I was like, ‘What? What the f— are you talking about? I’m not going to do that.’”. – Source